276 HENRY KTRKE WHITE's REMAINS. 



he has nothing' else to do than to pay forfeits for non- 

 attendance. A few cards and a little rack will be a 

 short way of helping the memory. 



I think I must get a supply of sugar from London ; 

 for if I buy it here it will cost me Is. 6d. per pound, 

 which is rather too much. I have got tea enough to 

 last the term out. 



* * * * 

 Although you may be quite easy on the subject of my 



future support, yet you must not form splendid ideas of 

 my success at the University, for the lecturers all speak 

 so low, and we sit at such a distance^ that I cannot hear 

 a syllable. I have, therefore, no more advantage than 

 if I were studying at home. 



I beg we may have no more doubts and fears, at least 

 on my score. I think I am now very near being off 

 your hands ; and, since my education at the University 

 is quite secure, you need not entertain gloomy appre- 

 hensions for the future : my maintenance will, at all 

 events, be decent and respectable ; and you must not 

 grieve yourself because I cannot be as rich as an alder- 

 man. 



* « *• * 



Do not show this letter to all comers, nor leave it 

 about, for people will have a very mean idea of Univer- 

 sity education when they find it costs so little ; but if 

 they are saucy on the subject, tell them — I have a Lord 

 just under me. 



* * * * 



TO THE REV. JOHN DASHWOOD. 



St John's, 26th Oct. 1805. 

 Dear Sir, 



It is now many months since I wrote to you, and I 

 have not received any answer. I should not have 

 troubled you with this letter, but that, considering how 

 much 1 owe to you, I thought the rules and observances 



